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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nwnexus!wjones From: wjones@halcyon.com (Warren Jones) Subject: Re: The ultimate 386BSD machine? (FAQ fodder) Message-ID: <1992Oct8.081942.27776@nwnexus.WA.COM> Keywords: 386BSD Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer) Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505 References: <1992Oct8.072512.8700@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 08:19:42 GMT Lines: 20 earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes: >- Serial ports; more trivial, but can I assume nowadays that I don't have to > ask for NS16550AFN chips, and will get them by default? (I will want to run > PPP at 38400 baud over them ... ) I can at least answer your trivial question. I was recently shopping, like you, for a 386BSD system, and was surprised to find that NS16550AFN chips are quite rare, even in what I had considered top-of-the line name brand systems. I don't think I ever found them in generic clones. The question of replacing the 8250 with a 16550AFN turned out to be a useful method for weeding out dealers. (Quite a few didn't even understand the question.) It you have a demo system running windows 3.1, you can use MSD (the Microsoft Diagnostic utility) to find out what kind of UART's it has. -- Warren Jones <wjones@halcyon.com>